CMA CGM Marco Polo
CMA CGM Marco Polo is a UK-registered container ship of the owned by the CMA CGM group. On 6 November 2012, it became the largest container ship in the world measured by capacity, but was surpassed on 24 February 2013 by the Maersk Triple E class, which is 4 metres longer at precisely 400m in length.
It is named for Venetian merchant and traveller Marco Polo.
The previous largest was Emma Mærsk and her seven sisters of the . The capacity is 10,000 TEU with an average payload of 14 tonnes, compared with 11,000 for Emma Mærsk and even more for the Triple E Class.
